(January 28, 2015 at 9:44 pm)YGninja Wrote:(January 28, 2015 at 9:33 pm)Nope Wrote: Explain please.
That law is for the protection of the girl and her child.
The law regarding rape of a betrothed girl is thus:
“But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. 26But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor, 27because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her."
But for an unmarried girl it is this:
“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, 29then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days."
We see, the man is only allowed to live, so that the girl and her offspring do not suffer more, or die. Instead his punishment is to support her unto his death. In those days, a unmarried girl with child was effectively a death sentence, she would not have been able to get another man to work and support her and her family, so the rapist must do it. It made the best of a bad situation, and was a law formed to protect the victims or rape.
This is just so wrong. A woman gets raped, and then, not only is her rapist not punished, she is forced to live with him. That's not making the best of a bad situation; it's just cruelty, plain and simple. It doesn't fix the situation, or even put a band-aid or it; it wides the problem even further. And, seriously, there was no other solution whatsoever?
Gone
